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Chapter 9 Wireless
NWA3000-N Series User’s Guide
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9.5.1 Disassociating and Delaying Connections
When your AP becomes overloaded, there are two basic responses it can take. The
first one is to “delay” a client connection. This means that the AP withholds the
connection until the data transfer throughput is lowered or the client connection is
picked up by another AP. If the client is picked up by another AP then the original
AP cannot resume the connection.
For example, here the AP has a balanced bandwidth allotment of 6 Mbps. If laptop
R connects and it pushes the AP over its allotment, say to 7 Mbps, then the AP
Disassociate
station when
overloaded
Select this option to “kick” wireless clients connected to the AP when
it becomes overloaded. If you do not enable this option, then the AP
simply delays the connection until it can afford the bandwidth it
requires, or it shunts the connection to another AP within its
broadcast radius.
The kick priority is determined automatically by the NWA3000-N
series AP and is as follows:
• Idle Timeout - Devices that have been idle the longest will be
kicked first. If none of the connected devices are idle, then the
priority shifts to Signal Strength .
• Signal Strength - Devices with the weakest signal strength will
be kicked first.
Note: If you enable this function, you should ensure that there are
multiple APs within the broadcast radius that can accept
any rejected or kicked wireless clients; otherwise, a
wireless client attempting to connect to an overloaded AP
will be kicked continuously and never be allowed to
connect.
Apply Click Apply to save your changes back to the NWA3000-N series AP.
Reset Click Reset to return the screen to its last-saved settings.
Table 42 Configuration > Wireless > Load Balancing (continued)
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